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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET<br/>
<span class=large>JEREMIAH</span>
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CHAPTER 39
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Jerusalem is taken and the people captivated—Jeremiah and Ebed-melech, the Ethiopian, are preserved.
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In</span> the <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/39/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 25: 1; Jer. 52: 4; Ezek. 24: 1.">ninth</a> year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/39/1b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ezek. 24: 2.">king</a> of Babylon and all his army against <sup>c</sup><a href="jer/39/1c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Jerusalem.">Jerusalem</a>, and they besieged it.
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<i>And</i> in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth <i>day</i> of the month, the city was broken up.
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And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/39/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 1: 15.">gate</a>, <i>even</i> Nergal-sharezer, Samgar-nebo, Sarsechim, Rab-saris, Nergal-sharezer, Rab-mag, with all the residue of the princes of the king of Babylon.
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&#182; And it came to pass, <i>that</i> when <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/39/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 52: 3 (3-15); Omni 1: 15 (15-16).">Zedekiah</a> the king of Judah saw them, and all the men of war, then they fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king’s garden, by the gate betwixt the two walls: and he went out the way of the plain.
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But the Chaldeans’ army pursued after them, and overtook <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/39/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 44: 30.">Zedekiah</a> in the <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/39/5b" mark="b" type="A" title="Lam. 4: 19.">plains</a> of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he <sup>c</sup><a href="jer/39/5c" mark="c" type="D" title="OR pronounced sentence.">gave</a> judgment upon him.
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Then the king of Babylon <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/39/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 25: 21 (19-21); Jer. 52: 10; Ezek. 11: 10.">slew</a> the <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/39/6b" mark="b" type="A" title="Jer. 38: 23; Hel. 6: 10; Hel. 8: 21.">sons</a> of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: also the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah.
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Moreover he put out Zedekiah’s <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/39/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 52: 11; Ezek. 12: 13.">eyes</a>, and bound <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/39/7b" mark="b" type="A" title="Lam. 4: 20.">him</a> with chains, to carry him to Babylon.
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&#182; And the <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/39/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="Lam. 5: 2.">Chaldeans</a> <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/39/8b" mark="b" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 25: 9; Jer. 52: 13; Ezek. 16: 41.">burned</a> the king’s house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and <sup>c</sup><a href="jer/39/8c" mark="c" type="A" title="Jer. 5: 10 (10-18).">brake</a> down the walls of Jerusalem.
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Then Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the remnant of the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/39/9a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR had deserted.">fell</a> to him, with the rest of the people that remained.
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But <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/39/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 43: 6.">Nebuzar</a>-adan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the people, which had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.
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&#182; Now Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon gave charge concerning Jeremiah to Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard, saying,
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Take him, and <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/39/12a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB keep your eyes on him.">look</a> well to him, and do him no harm; but do unto him even as he shall say unto thee.
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So Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard sent, and Nebushasban, Rab-saris, and Nergal-sharezer, Rab-mag, and all the king of Babylon’s princes;
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Even they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the prison, and committed him unto <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/39/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 43: 6.">Gedaliah</a> the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home: so he dwelt among the people.
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&#182; Now the word of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> came unto Jeremiah, while he was shut up in the court of the prison, saying,
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Go and speak to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring my words upon this city for evil, and not for good; and they shall be <i>accomplished</i> in that day before thee.
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But I will deliver thee in that day, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>: and thou shalt not be given into the hand of the men of whom thou <i>art</i> afraid.
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For I will surely deliver thee, and thou shalt not fall by the sword, but thy <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/39/18a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 21: 9; Jer. 45: 5.">life</a> shall be for a prey unto thee: because thou hast put thy trust in me, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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